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Thank you God you made Neem !

Six months ago I was told by doctors, that 'forget you could walk without limp'. Shattered, I started visiting doctors and spent thousands of rupees - growing tension in the family. Suddenly I read somewhere, neem juice can cure you.  A ray of hope made me muster the courage to drink the bitter neem juice and in a month's time my limping was a thing of past ! Believe me I could see tension replaced by joy on my people's faces. I am detailing my case history below:

Let me tell you I am not a doctor, so it will be in totally layman's language and you may not find a proper sequence, I have detailed them as it has come to my mind, but I have tried to maintain the order. My problem started some three years back, when I developed pain in my left knee joint, well, as usual, I started applying some ointments or sometimes some hot water bag, etc went on. My pain also was like on / off, so I never paid much attention and went on to do my work – home-office-home – and other duties. It used to be 18 to 20 hrs working for me. Gradually, my pain started increasing – it wouldn’t reduce with hot water also – since I am allergic to allopathic drugs, it was ruled out for me to take any painkiller or any other drugs. I could take either homeopathy or ayurvedic combinations.

This year (April 2003) my left knee joint became worst and my mobility curtailed, it was like a –clipping the wings of a bird who always flies and tries to reach new heights – mental agony was killing me and the so - called ‘sympathy’ from others were all the more painful. At this time somebody suggested ‘I go to some physiotherapist and with massage and magnet I will improve’. Well, I did that for whole of April, result – increase in pain, decrease in mobility – At this stage my husband suggested to talk to some orthopedic doctor, I was to visit him but I can’t forget that Thursday morning, when I was taking a milk pot from the fridge and putting it on a dining table, my knee joint screeched and the pain was so unbearable I almost lost my balance. That was the time doctors came in to picture and they diagnosed that I had ‘acute kind of rheumatism with spasms in the back of knee joint’, and suggested whole world of therapies – traction, massage, rest, medicine, pain killers and what not. Ultimately I started with ‘panchkarma’ treatment with one ayurvedic center, under the supervision of doctor. Yes, the treatment did help me, my pain was reduced but the stiffness in the knee joint wouldn’t go, climbing the steps, or getting into a vehicle, or sitting on a particular height was problematic, leave aside squatting and doing meditation, that was the thing of distant past. I underwent the treatment for 45 days, with the ayurvedic medicine, but at the end of the course, I had improved only marginally. Now my husband and other friends and family members started wondering whether I am turning a ‘psychic’ case, turning ‘negative’, because of my mother’s death had left a void and the feeling of loneliness.

This year, September end my husband ultimately suggested –rather insisted – I go to the Kaivalyadham at Lonavala and under go the naturopathy treatment, but I was not ready to leave them alone and go there.
Around this time I came across a note by Dr. Kaushik Dixit in ‘Mumbai Samachar’, (Gujarati Daily), under the heading ‘try it out’. It said if neem juice taken on regular basis every morning, any ailment pertaining to ‘vaat, pitta or kuff’ can be cured. I thought ‘having tried every thing why not to try ‘neem’ and see. Tell you the truth, the thought of ‘drinking neem juice’ had given me scare, but I was desperate. There was no room for that kind of likes/dislikes, and I started with two table spoons, but then realized, it will take very long and I wanted results very fast. So I started with one cup, graduated to a glass. To reduce the bitterness of the neem I started adding one or two ‘awla’. Now I and my son we have a glass each in the morning and start with our work. In the mornings, I have to stand in the kitchen at a stretch for about two hrs, doing various jobs. Before I started the ‘neem juice’ treatment,
I could stand only for ten to fifteen minutes at a stretch, but now I don’t realize when I have finished my work. I have resumed my meditation which was discontinued, climbing the steps are easy. Yes, I would put it this way, I am cured, but still some nagging pain is there, as if a reminder of what I had under gone. But, surely credit goes to the ‘neem juice’ for my cure. I use mixture/grinder to extract juice. During the month of October when I started with neem juice therapy, I had stopped all the medicine given by the Ayurvedic doctor. I wanted to ensure with which treatment I am cured.

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The Furture  of Neem – Students Neem Plantation Programme
Planting trees is a joyous activity – more so when it involves young children whose little hands and hearts plant and nurture trees. Over the last few months the Foundation has actively tired to involve students and the results have been very rewarding. We present here some photographs of students from Nagpur and tiny tots from Jaipur- Planting Neem.